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SUMMARY:Mara Squicciarini - Università Bocconi
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\nDe-Polarizing Politics: Faith Meets Science in the French Third Republi
 c” with Gianandrea Lanzara, Mara P. Squicciarini, Nico Voigtländer\n\n\nAbs
 tract:\nWe investigate whether individual politicians can help reduce polar
 ization in parliamentary debates. Focusing on the French Third Republic (18
 80–1914), we study Members of Parliament educated in Jesuit collèges—instit
 utions combining religious formation with rigorous scientific and rhetorica
 l training. Using newly digitized data on Jesuit school enrollments and ove
 r one million parliamentary speeches, we identify Jesuit-educated MPs (JeMP
 s) and analyze their linguistic and behavioral patterns through text embedd
 ings and large language models. We find that JeMPs systematically employed 
 less emotional and less polarized rhetoric, emphasized reason and science, 
 and moderated subsequent speakers’ tone within the same debate. These effec
 ts were particularly pronounced during the contentious 1905 Separation of C
 hurch and State Law. Our results provide the first large-scale quantitative
  evidence that personal formation rooted in both faith and rational inquiry
  can foster moderation in polarized political environments, highlighting a 
 historical mechanism for “de-polarizing” politics.\n
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